GA BON no longer accepting Excelsior education; Speak up Cont. Updates!!

When I started this thread and told everyone of my experience I think it offended a lot of people. Most people stated that what I said was not true. I decided to just sit back and wait for the chips to fall where they may. Now I know of another EC student who has been denied and yet another who is still waiting for an answer after three weeks; it is now past the 10-14 business days they usually quote. I was literally the first student from EC to be denied a GA license. So it really hit me like a ton of bricks. I am still having to work as an LPN though I have RN license in three states. My family is seriously contemplating moving from GA; I will leave in December if this thing is not resolved.

However, I have hired an attorney who has done a lot of administrative law. He even worked as an administrative law judge and hearing officer for the board. He is also a Former Attorney General for the Georgia. He says that all hope is not lost we must wait and see. But there are options and the law is yet to be interpreted by the GA Supreme Court. I am sure Excelsiors Attorneys are working on this matter. I don't think they are going to just lie down and say "OK." But I didn't want to wait for them, so I hired my own.

I don't understand the rationale for this action. On any given day you can use internet search engines to look at RN opportunities; in Atlanta GA alone more than 500 jobs are available everyday. Even now as an LPN I earn 27.00-29.00 an hour. Imagine how this is going to impact the shortage more and drive up the wages. I don't think the powers that be considered this. Not to even mention the foreign trained nurses they keep importing from third world countries. Do they think they are trained any better that we are? I recently heard from a nurse manager at one VERY LARGE local hospital chain that they many of the higher ups and nurse recruiters are going to the Olympics in China. She said while they were over there that they would be touring the school and looking at the nursing programs and graduates. She boasted on how this hospital system is looking to pioneer a program to bring "competent" nurses from China because they have so many. I guess since they can't outsource nursing jobs they will just import cheaper nurses. I do believe the spirit of capitalism is going to be the death of America. When are we as a nation going to wake up.

And just as a previous post wrote. I can run circles around any traditional new grad RN. I have over 13 years nursing experience at least 10 years in a hospital setting. They have no experience at all, yet they are more qualified because they went to a mental health and maternal infant clinical rotation for a week? I can't believe this is happening. Sorry for the long post....I am just venting.

Good Luck Everyone.